Looks like both of these moves are going to go through.
Today Derby sucesfully obtained a work permit for the USA’s Gold Cup hero Benny Feilhaber. Sound like Commander Bob helped by writing a referance for his boy Benny to gain his permit. Feilhaber is expected to join the club soon after their debut [...]

A few news items today…
-Peter Nowak was officially announced as coach of the U-23 Olympic Squad for the 2008 games in Bejing as expected. I got to thinking of the squad a little bit more and another player I really want to see is Stuart Holden (the American (sorta) Beckham). I say sorta [...]

Ives Galarcep at the Herald News is reporting that United States U-20 midfielder Danny Szetela has agreed to a contract with serie a giants A.S. Roma.
Just yesterday I posted a transfer bit about Lazio looking to wrap up a deal for Danny, but now it seems their city rivals the Gillarossi decided it was them [...]

According to the Soccer Insider himself Steven Goff, Peter Nowak may be coaching the Stars and Stripe’s young Americans in the 2008 Olympics in Bejing..
The Olympics is a primarily U-23 competition, but each team is allowed to field three players over the age of 23, like possibly ‘Dinho for the Samba Boys.
This is [...]

The Yanks will make the hike up to Azteca to partake in a deathly intense exhibition (nothing with these two is friendly) with El Tri on September 9th. The team’s friendly schedual for the year is actually looking really good…
Aug. 22 Sweden Ullevi Stadium (Goteborg, Sweden) 2:30 p.m. ET FSC / Galavision
Sept. 9 Mexico [...]

The American Youth already stepped up once this summer in Canada, now it’s time to go even younger, and possibly deeper, into the talent pool.
The U-17 World Cup is comming up, and because of that fact it is time to educate the public of this fine website on some of the most interesting prospect’s names [...]

Freddy Adu is travelling to Portugal to finalize his transfer to S.L. Benfica. Finally.
Adu is set to become an Eagle for $550,000/yr for 5 years plus housing, car, and goal bonuses.
His base salary is just about what he is currentley making in the MLS, this tells me that money is deffinatley not [...]

The first of the tremendous U-20 bunch to sign his European contract is not Freddy, or Danny Szetela, but somewhat surprising stand out Sal Zizzo.
The deal runs for three years and will pair Sal with fellow right-sided yank Steve Cherundolo. Always good to have a fellow yank to look out for you. Steve [...]

Today, through a story put out by the Salt Lake Tribune, we learned that Freddy Adu to Benfica may be closer to happenning then some of us thought. It seems Adu’s agent requested some extra days off for Freddy from Salt Lake so he could presumably work out his European transfer. The story [...]

…for I am in a soccer dream.
If you have yet to realize, let me bring something to your attention. Right now, as I write, we are in one of the most monumental times in American soccer history. Take a second to soak that in. I’ll get to all of the parts that [...]